The costs of local food procurement in a Northern Canadian First Nation community: an affordable strategy to food security?

Abstract

Northern rural and remote Indigenous Communities in Canada are experiencing disproportionately high rates of diet related diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, largely because of the limited access to nutritious food. Indigenous peoples have experienced a rapid nutrition transition that has led to an over reliance on low quality market-food. In one remote fly-in First Nation in northern Ontario, leadership has looked to land-based food as a way to make healthy foods more readily available in the community. This paper documents what is involved in land-based food procurement in the Wapekeka First Nation, and the costs incurred getting food from the land. This paper argues that despite the considerable economic and physical demands, land-based food procurement is a viable and culturally valuable option to help increase local access to healthy foods.

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